During LASIK, your eye is made numb with an eye drop and a lid holder is placed in your eye to keep you from blinking. You simply look at a flashing red light for about 3 minutes, which is how long the laser eye surgery typically takes. A patient from Camarillo recently asked me a […]

It is generally felt that LASIK and PRK laser vision correction do not make floaters worse — nor do they make them better. A patient from Santa Barbara recently asked me what effect having LASIK would have on floaters. It turns out this is a question I often am asked. As I reassured her, LASIK […]

Some patients — particularly those with acne rosatia, poor diet,or menopause — have evaporative dry eye syndrome which accentuates dry eyes with computer use. These patients often still can have laser eye surgery with pre-treatment of their dry eye. A patient from Santa Barbara came for a LASIK evaluation today. She told me she her […]

The laser that is used during LASIK laser eye surgery is both painless and invisible. It can’t be seen because it is outside the visible spectrum of light. A patient from Santa Barbara recently told me her main concern about having LASIK was that she did not want to see the laser “coming at her” […]

SupraCor and LASIK Monovision Laser Vision Correction both involve trading some distance vision to improve mid and close vision. Both can be used after cataract surgery or to correct presbyopia. A new study looks at SupraCor after cataract surgery. In my last blog, I looked at the issue of reading vision after cataract surgery. We […]